After all the attention garnered in recent weeks by the EU’s GDPR, there’s another regulation that you may have missed. And with good reason, given that only about 0.2 percent of the U.S. population live in Vermont. But the state’s new, first-of-its-kind law regulating data brokers is likely to have an impact far beyond what that number alone would suggest. ​READ

Are women unwelcome in the world of tech? Not at the American Bar Association, says Ruth Hill Bro. And she thinks that there are real opportunities for women who have an interest in cybersecurity—partly because the field is growing so fast. READ

By David Hechler

Several prominent law firms have been hit with data breaches, prompting understandable anxiety among corporate law departments. Some soul searching has ensued, and law firms seem to be taking cybersecurity quite seriously. Problem solved? Not quite. READ